T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.”
“There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.”
“There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.”
Source: Sita
“There are only one or two geniuses every century.”
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”
“There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.”
“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.”
“There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.”
“There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads" just cannot be performed live, because it's just too cluttered if it's played by humans. Synthesizers stay out of each other's way in a way that hand-played instruments never can.”
“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.”
“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”
“There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.”
“There are only so many parallel universes
that concern us. In one, he isn't dead.”
Source: Soft Science
“There are only so many people you can care about. I mean REALLY care about.
And I like the people I already have.”
“There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.”
“There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.”
“There are only so many times history can repeat itself till there is nothing left to repeat.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.”
“There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.”
“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”
Source: The Game
“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'
“there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.”
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.”
“There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.”
Source: The Eternity Cure
“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
“There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”
“There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.”
Source: Saga, Vol. 3
“There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.”
“There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.”
Source: As it is in Heaven
“There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.”
Source: Let the Nations Be Glad! DVD Study Guide
“There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.”
“There are only three kinds of relationships in the animal kingdom. The first is commensalism. One example: Fish finding hiding spots in coral reefs. Fish profit, but life for the coral doesn’t change. Then there’s mutualism, a relationship where both animals benefit from each other. The tricky thing about animals is you don’t always know what kind of relationship you’re in. Which brings me to relationship number three. The parasitic.”
“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”
“There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.”
“There are only three options for black sheep: live authentically and get kicked out of the community, have the courage to move out on your own and rebuild from scratch, or hide your true self and desperately try to fit in (which you never will).”
Source: 2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail
“There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.”
Source: Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on
“There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.”
“There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.”
“There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.”
“There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.”
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”